27 OCTOBER 1944, page 4

I Am Glad That Lord Halifax, At The Penn Tercentenary

celebration at Philadelphia on Tuesday, went out of his way to refer to Penn's essay on the peace of Europe. It was a singularly interesting coincidence that -the 3ooth......

Some Of The Risks Attending The Conduct Of Newspapers Were

emphasised at the Trades Union Congress last week, when Sir Walter Citrine, speaking on a proposal that the T.U.C. should run a weekly paper of its own, said the Congress had......

Government Departments—their Ways. Apropos Of My...

the Irishman in the last war who made money by laying mines for the Germans while his brother made money . fishing them up again for the English—just like Government......

A Spectator's Notebook

I F the Commonwealth Civil Aviation Conference was to be on an official, rather than a Ministerial, level—no doubt there were good reasons for that decision—no better......

It Is All Very Well To Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter

and that kind of thing, but why Mr. R. A. Butler, just because the compulsory school age is to be raised to fifteen at some date of which we know only that it will not be till......

Two Points—if It Is Fair To Pick Minor Points Out

of an admirable and learned essay—have struck me in Mr. G. M. Young's Romanes Lecture on Mr. Gladstone, which the Oxford Press has recently published at 2s. One is the story......

The Prime Minister's Act (or Gesture, As The Newest...

would put it) in going down the floor of the House to greet Sir Wiliam Beveridge and chat with him was, it seems, sufficiently un- usual to cause a minor sensation. There was......

Moscow Harvest

WHOUGH the Prime Minister has not yet made his promised I statement about the Moscow Conference, the official com- muniqué and various events which tell their own sufficient......